1S69. ] PARADISE GEM MELON. — PEGGED-DOWN ROSES. J OO 



should also be sown the first week in the month. Cauliflowers for hand-glasses 

 and winter storing should be sown about the 10th, and again about the 21st. 

 All spare ground may be sown with Turnips up to the middle of the month. 

 Herbs, when fit, should be cut, dried, and tied up in bunches, and hung up in an 

 open-air dry place, or packed away in drawers. 



Fruit trees should be carefully looked over, and all superfluous shoots not 

 wanted another season should be removed at once. This will admit more air and 

 sun to the fruit, and to the wood and buds for next year's bearing ; as the fruit 

 becomes ripe it should be carefully gathered in a dry state. To protect the fruit 

 from wasps and flies, the trees should be well covered with hexagon netting. As 

 soon as all the fruit is gathered off the Raspberries, the old canes should be cut 

 clean away to admit more sun and air to the young canes. Fresh plantations of 

 Strawberries should be made at once, if not done last month. Grapes in green- 

 houses will begin to colour towards the end of the month. They should have 

 abundance of air during the day, and a considerable amount at night also, with 

 more or less fire heat according to the state of the weather, and consistently with 

 the welfare of the plants in the house. 



Stourton. M. Saul. 



PARADISE GEM MELON. 



,y HERE early Melons are in demand, this variety will undoubtedly prove a 

 ' r real acquisition. I planted it in a pit three weeks later than the other 

 kinds, but it was ready to cut equally as early. It has, to judge from 

 appearance, some of the Malvern Hall breed in it. It is a remarkably 

 free grower, of good habit, sets most freely, is nicely ribbed, and of average size. 

 Where scarlet-fleshed melons are at all in demand, I would advise a trial of the 

 Paradise Gem. J. E. 



PEGGED-DOWN ROSES. 



f^EW persons are aware of the beauty and elegance of Pegged-down Roses, 

 when treated as they should be. It appears strange that so few are to be 

 V/l) seen grown on this system, although all who once see them agree in 

 § saying that Roses are never so effective as when thus managed. 

 I will attempt to give a short sketch of some of my plants as they are at the 

 present time. I have just counted 27 blooms on one branch of John Hopper, 23 

 on one branch of Madame Boll, 29 on one branch of General Jacqueminot, 19 

 on one of Comtesse de Chabrillant, 18 on one of Louise Odder, 24 on one of 

 Souvenir de Charles Montault, 30 on one of Anna Alexieff, 16 on one of Madame 

 Clemence Joigneaux, and there are scores of others with nearly the same number 

 of flowers. Now when it is considered that each plant has from five to eight 

 branches loaded with blooms, the effect produced by them can be imagined. I 

 may also state that although these wreaths of Roses are so plentiful, the blossoms 



